credit: Tom Sears
Black bears (Ursus americanus) typically give birth to two cubs; on rare occasions, one or three. So when photographer Tom Sears heard of a black bear sow
in New hampshire with five cubs, he lingered by their favorite trail in the hopes of photographing them together. “After spending nearly four hours a day, seven
days a week, for six weeks,” says Sears, “i had that once in a lifetime opportunity.”
Their buff plumage warmed by September’s late afternoon light, a group of Pallas’s sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) line up at a watering hole on the
Mongolian steppe. during inspections of power lines, photographer and biologist Rick harness found that Pallas’s sandgrouse are the most common
species to collide with the lines.
credit: Rick harness
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